I think I'm going to send this one to my (also very sane) girlfriend so she understands better why I crawl into bed and then 30 minutes later get up again and go back to the computer. Thanks for putting words to that feeling that feeling that many of us know so well - if nothing else, it's nice to know that other people experience the same thing.
Founder's Hell: Competitive Horror
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#22I think I'm going to send this one to my (also very sane) girlfriend so she understands better why I crawl into bed and then 30 minutes later get up again and go back to the computer. Thanks for putting words to that feeling that feeling that many of us know so well - if nothing else, it's nice to know that other people experience the same thing.
thanks man, love reading comments like that.
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#23just wanted to say thanks again to everyone trying to sign-up for the service, i wasn't expecting this that much, we pushed an update last night and it seems nobody was able to sign up. ha, what better day, right? - it's fixed now. thanks again and sorry.
Could you allow us to view results without making an account? I was going through the process until you asked me to make an account and/or link to social network. I need to see proof of usefulness before taking that step. At least a view of what results might look like. If there was one, I didn't see it in my sign-up process.
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#24just wanted to say thanks again to everyone trying to sign-up for the service, i wasn't expecting this that much, we pushed an update last night and it seems nobody was able to sign up. ha, what better day, right? - it's fixed now. thanks again and sorry.
Could you allow us to view results without making an account? I was going through the process until you asked me to make an account and/or link to social network. I need to see proof of usefulness before taking that step. At least a view of what results might look like. If there was one, I didn't see it in my sign-up process.
done just a few minutes ago, added it to the blog post.
use: 20demo@binkmail.com / twentypeople
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#25Why so many mentions about TechCrunch? There was never any indication as to why it is such a focus aside from finding articles about people doing something similar.
For example: "There’s a plethora of successful businesses, ideas, projects and products, all happening outside of TechCrunch"
Yes this is obvious, but again why would you mention TechCrunch in this context as though there are millions of people who feel it is the central business information repository online?
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#26Why so many mentions about TechCrunch? There was never any indication as to why it is such a focus aside from finding articles about people doing something similar. For example: "There’s a plethora of successful businesses, ideas, projects and products, all happening outside of TechCrunch" Yes this is obvious, but again why would you mention TechCrunch in this context as though there are millions of people who feel i…
not sure about how many startup events or conferences you attended. but if someone gets 'featured' on techcrunch, they would make sure to go party on it. especially in europe. i found this to be almost sad, to see, how this single entity is controlling so much of the success/failure of many. or, maybe from a different angle: it has become the point of success for many startups, featured there, you'll make it anywhere... (i know that's not true, but you'll hopefully see what i mean).
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#27Very realistic experience of what starting your own startup feels like. Read that first before you quit your job. Then quit if you're still up for it.
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#28Your idea doesn't seem like one where first-move takes all (whether it's customers, hype, media press, etc). I recommend just going all in with the enterprise market, and marketing it as a tool for employers to keep track of the skills their employees have. Sort of like a poor man's SuccessFactors.
you nailed my second iteration right there. when i realized that the consumer market is just filled with services, i figured, the hell with it, i'll create an enterprise only product, full with virtual hosting environments and everything - never made enough progress to push it out yet, but it's at 80% done or so and does 100% what you said right there... appreciated!
Following this train of thought, it might be worth exploring if this would work best as an SAP or Jive add-on or some such. . . Getting a sales channel would be helpful in the Enterprise world.
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#29Today I learned that I can use AdBlock to kill that annoying fixed-scrolling header. Just right click it and select "Block this ad".
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#30I think this feeling is a staple of all involved in "longer-term" creative efforts that have to compete for the same mindshare. I'm sure PhD/grad students have the same horror when one of their Google alerts pops up with a conference paper abstract that reads just like what they've been slaving on for three months :o !!
Try three years, three months is just getting warmed up.